Qualifying

A bad weekend gets worse for Hamilton – After his incident with the police and failing to reach the top ten in qualifying it was looking like a tough weekend for Hamilton – and that was before we knew what would happen on race day.

As for the coverage and especially the post-FP-, Q- and Raceanalysis this is by far the best coverage possible! No annoying gossip, no nonsense, just sticking to facts and analysis. Keith, you work really really hard and it’s highly appreciated, thank you for making this wonderfull site possible!

Its a very good coverage of F1. It makes it much easier to understand the results etc. And also easier to get a feeling of the drivers and teams real strength, when the laptimes over the races is compared, eventhough You have to take any slower cars in front into consideration.
Being a MScEE I only miss some more technical stuff.

A comment on the points system:
Rosberg had two P5 finishes, and has 20 points; while Kubica got one P2 finish and has 18…
Two P5 is more than a P2? Back in 2002 it would have been 6 to 4 for Kubica… It doesn’t seem ok (fair).

Whether a finishing position is deserved or not is a problem that will exist in any points system -if it even exists, because whoever finishes in a position by righteous means, it is always fair. If it’s not, that’s what penalties are for.
What I mean is the balance in points.
Do I believe it’s ok for to give points all the way down to P10? Yes, but I think it is not ditribuited right.
P5 points increased 100% from 2002 to 2010, while P2 only increased 20%… it’s wrong: P5 points shouldn’t have gone that higher.

Was brilliant coverage as usual. I had the rather guilty, if unexpected pleasure of a late rise on sunday morning (hangover, mother’s 70th bloomed), so missed the blog and first 41 laps. So was lumbered with the ‘call yourself a fan’ lunchtime version, and you know what? Damn you Keith Collantine, if the race just ain’t as much fun ya clever devil – the Live Blog is brilliant! Not even Live Timing to offer a sop.

A a very random aside, was noone else surprised to hear the BBC TV commentators say that you no longer need to wait until you cross thr start finish line to overtake a competitor after restarts behind the safety car?

I thought Hamilton was brilliant during the race; he overtook all the top drivers but Kubica. If his team did not pull him in, he would certainly have taken him too. I donâ€™t think he would get past Button a second time though, so would have finished second. Jenson is shrewd, he knows he wonâ€™t beat Lewis in a strait fight out, but his experience and strategic thinking seem to be superior, for now anyway. So well done to Jenson.

Vettel should win in Malaysia, especially since the track suits to the RB6 almost perfectly. But then again that car scares me in terms of reliability. There is something to be said there for missing the first part of the pre-season tests !